4-year-old microblogging platform Tumblr now hosts more blogs than 8-year-old WordPress.com.
In January, Tumblr had more than 7 million individual blogs. At the time Mashable posted this article, the total blog ticker on the site read about three times that at 20,873,182 — beating out WordPress.com’s current count of 20,787,904 by about 85,000 blogs.
Given that WordPress had about a four-year headstart, surpassing it in number is an impressive feat for Tumblr.
Why is it assumed that all black women are a slave to their emotions?
Why is it not possible for others to see them as victims of crime?
Juli Weiner, worrying that iPhone’s stalkerism will out her as not “really close” to the restaurant.
We share her concern.
(via vanityfair)Well, at least there will be less lying in the world.
Fact: The United States uses more water in a day than it uses oil in a year. And in four days, the United States uses more water than the world uses oil in a year. Are you sitting up yet? Charles Fishman explains it all here.
It’s no secret that we have a global water crisis on our hands. If this new infographic video from Charity Water doesn’t inspire you to take some action, nothing will. The good news is that we all have an opportunity to turn a challenging problem into a productive solution. Who wouldn’t want to be apart of that?
(Source: fastcodesign.com)
You can’t download an app these days without it asking for your location—and not just on check-in services like Foursquare and Gowalla. Google Maps, Instagram, Twitter, Square, MenuPages, Shazam—they all want to know exactly where you are whenever you’re using the app. Heck, services like Google Latitude won’t even let you decline to share your location—it’ll just put you through an endless cycle of notifications, almost demanding you to accept its terms.
Perhaps that’s why location sharing has become such a huge concern for users, who worry they’re giving out too much data via their GPS-enabled smartphones. According to a report out today by Nielsen, a whopping 59% of females and 52% of males have privacy concerns when it comes to location-based services.
No. Why? Human nature.
Today, Amazon announced a new feature for its Kindle e-reader called Library Lending, which will enable users to borrow e-books from more than 11,000 libraries in the US. The feature will launch later this year, and be available for all Kindle generations.
For Kindle users, this will open a trove of free e-books to borrow on-the-go. For publishing as a whole, it marks yet another sign that in an industry of paper and hardcovers—even those stored in the basements of old, dusty institutions like libraries—the transition to the digital age is all but inevitable. How are libraries going to cope with this transition?
(Picture via bookshelfporn, peopleasplaces, Papervision3D Panorama)
In case you didn’t get the memo, games are making all kinds of staid or serious things sexy and downright fun now, from business training to dusty libraries to human rights to health care.
Scot Osterweil, research director of MIT’s Education Arcade, is one of the masterminds behind a new science game made for the Smithsonian Institution. The game is a National Science Foundation-funded experiment in “alternative science education.”
See how this grand experiment in “alternative science education” is planned to unfold over the next two months, right here.
(Source: fastcompany)
Breaking: The Pope has declared that technology cannot replace God. Fast Company readers should adjust their worldviews accordingly.
Also emerging today is word that one interfaith group, the So We Might See coalition, is calling for a “media fast” during the run-up to Easter Sunday, Holy Week. They’ve even put together a list of 101 screen-free activities, so you have a response ready as your dumbstruck child looks up from his game of Angry Birds. “Let’s paint a mural,” you are supposed to say. “Let’s learn to use a compass.”
Giving up tech for Holy Week and Lent is well on its way to becoming a religious tradition of its own. Click through to read more ways people are shutting down for Holy Week.
Amen. :)
(Source: fastcompany)
Thanks to your extraordinary contributions and charity t-shirts orders, the Tumblr community raised $77,780 for Japan in less than a week.
Today we sent your donations along to the International Red Cross to help Japan in its recovery efforts.
We’re incredibly humbled and grateful for your empathy and generosity.
日本の皆さま, 頑張ってください。
Compassion and support - you have got to love it. :)
